BAnQ Numérique: Bibliothèque et Archives Nationale du Québec

The digital collections of the National Library and Archives of Quebec. This amazing resource contains digitized newspapers, books, images, videos, and more.

Click here to access.

Note: the website (and the majority of its resources) are in French.

The Catholic News Archive

This resource collects religious periodicals from across the United States and makes them available to view online. Their database is entirely searchable, and currently contains 35,735 issues comprising of 701,419 pages (Catholic Research Resources Alliance, n.d.). Click here to access. 

Articles in other periodicals

• "A Week-End Vigil with the Trappists", by H.A. Allen, published in the May 1923 edition of The Month, a Catholic monthly review. This article is beautifully written, and can be accessed on the Internet Archive, here.

• "A Night in a Trappist Monastery", by Joe Toye, published in the Boston Traveler on November 17th, 1923. It was also published as a small booklet, a copy of which is located at the Rhode Island Historical Society. See a scan of the original article here. (Courtesy of the Boston Public Library).

• "Only Colony of Trappist Monks in the Northeast", published in the Boston Herald on May 14, 1905 describes in great detail the state of the monastery at the time. A framed copy of this article can be seen in the Rhode Island Room on the second floor of the library, and a scanned version can be read here. 

Books

Available in the Library

Click the link to pull up the item in the catalog. Note: some items are non-circulating and are available to read in the Rhode Island Room on the second floor.

1. Through Faith and Fire: the Monks of Spencer 1825-1958, by Gabriel Bertonière. 

2. Pioneer Monks in Nova Scotia, by Rev. Luke Schrepper O.S.A.

This item is library use only, and does not circulate. 

3. The Cistercian Monks of the Strict Observance, by Edmund Futterer 

Available as a scanned copy in the Monastery Reference File (library use only).

4. The Waters of Siloe, by Thomas Merton

5. The Great Impostor, by Robert Chrichton

This item is library use only, and does not circulate. The film adaptation, however, does circulate.

6. If You Love Me You Will Do My Will, by Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth 

7. Vision of Peace: Saint Joseph's Valley: A Brief History

This item is library use only, and does not circulate.

8. Cistercian Sign Language: A Study in Non-verbal Communication, by Robert A. Barakat 

This item is library use only, and does not circulate.

9. The Monastery (Cumberland R.I.) Reference File, 

Compiled by the Staff of the Cumberland Public Library between 1978 and 1998. Contains newspaper clippings, book excerpts, and photographs. This item is library use only, and does not circulate.

10. Photographic Views of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Valley: Lonsdale, Rhode Island 

Please see the reference desk to access this item. 16 pages of photographs of the monastery's early years. 

11. A Short History of Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey: Pecos, NM and Lafayette, OR 1948-1998 by Father John Baptist Hasbrouck (1998)

This item can be viewed at the Reference Desk on the second floor. It is library use only, and does not circulate. 

Available Online

1. The Cistercian Order: Its Object - Its Rule, by a Secular Priest (John Mary Murphy). 

Written by the first Prior of Our Lady of the Valley, John Mary Murphy. Available to read for free in its entirety on Google Books.

2. The Waters of Siloe, by Thomas Merton

Available on the Internet Archive.

3. If You Love Me You Will Do My Will, by Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth 

Available on the Internet Archive. 

4. Cistercian Sign Language: A Study in Non-verbal Communication, by Robert A. Barakat 

Available on the Internet Archive. 

5. The Great Impostor, by Robert Chrichton

Available on the Internet Archive. 

6. Broleo: The Wayward Monk, by Marshall Boykin

Available on the Internet Archive.

Available Elsewhere

1. The Glory of thy People: the Story of a Conversion, by Raphael Simon

Only available in print at certain libraries. I was able to go to Providence College and read the physical copy in the library. The call number is BX4668.S5, and here is a link to the item in the Providence College catalog. 

2. A Night in a Trappist Monastery by Joe Toye

The scanned newspaper article is available to read by those who have access to the Boston Public Library's online databases. A pamphlet published by the Boston Traveler Press that contains the article can be read at the Rhode Island Historical Society's Mary Elizabeth Robinson Research Center, or a scanned copy is available in the Monastery Reference File. Here is a link to the item in their catalog.

3. The Trappist Monks of Today, published by Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley. 

This pamphlet published at the monastery in 1924 is only available at two libraries in the country- College of the Holy Cross and the University of Alabama. However, because the pamphlet was published in 1924, it is considered to be part of the public domain. For that reason, I have uploaded a scan of the pamphlet to view here. 

4. The Cistercian Monks of the Strict Observance [Trappists] 1938 edition

Like The Trappist Monks of Today, this book was written at the monastery. There are copies at various libraries across the country, the closest being Assumption University in Worcester, MA.  There is a later edition that was published in 1947, which can be found in the reference file on the second floor.